Resisting environmental dispossession in ecuador: Whom does the political category of 'ancestral peoples of the mangrove ecosystem' include and aim to empower?

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 541-563

  Latorre, Sara ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Identity politics; Mangrove ecosystem; Political ecology; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908221270     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12052     Document Type: Article

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